What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us.

There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

A cynic is a kind of romantic who has aged.